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Tips to support leaving your comfort zone

Reframe stress: Physiologically, anxiety and excitement both entail the same "stress response." Stress can be negative or positive (eustress). When we reframe the stimuli as exciting, it can help us out of the comfort zone.
Understand neuroplasticity: The core of this theory is that humans are malleable and adaptable and can improve.
Prioritise: Find which areas of life being comfortable does more harm than good and prioritise that for growth.
Small steps can help make the process smooth.

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How to Leave your Comfort Zone and Enter your ‘Growth Zone’

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"Do one thing every day that scares you."

Eleanor Roosevelt

Benefits of leaving the comfort zone

Aside from increasing performance, less-direct benefits include:

Difficulty in stepping out of our comfort zones

Stepping out of our comfort zone to grab hold of opportunities can be difficult.

"One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again."

Abraham Maslow

Understanding the comfort zone

The Yerkes–Dodson Law (1907) linked anxiety to performance. In response to anxiety-provoking stimuli, the options are either fight (meet the challenge), flight (run away/hide), or freeze (become paralyzed).

From comfort zone to the growth zone

Moving into the growth zone becomes harder without some level of self-awareness.

"You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new."

Brian Tracy

Ways to leave your comfort zone

Break out of old, comfortable routines by doing some things differently. For example, turn off your smartphone while having dinner.
Expand your professional skillset.
Try a new diet.
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